I've got the following running, about 2/3 weeks from harvest:
Shiatsu Kush
OG Grape Krypt
Ace of Spades
i3 (Citrus Smoothies)
Pandora's Box
Transformer
White Fire Alien
Plushberry
Lemon Skunk
Chem#4 x Old Time Moonshine#1
Timewreck
and something mislabeled as 'Darkstar' despite being an obviously heavily Sativa leaning hybrid.
The smell of the OG Grape Krypt is really sweet and grapey, almost like blue sweets (?) and the Ace of Spades has got a really complex flavour that just drives me wild, it's huge too so definitely a keeper. The Shiatsu Kush smells a little bit like vanilla and looked pretty scraggly compared to everything else until a week or two ago when it suddenly covered itself in resin. Still a bit leafy though. The i3 hasn't smelt of citrus in anyway until about 3 days ago, now it's smelling more and more like pineapple or something kind of like it. Rock hard buds as well, I mean seriously - many small heads as Appleseed to a few big ones and they are all super dense. The same with the Transformer, although it doesn't smell as strong. Hard to pinpoint the flavour on that one but I think it may be going slightly red. The Pandora's Box has some huge heads considering the training I put everything through to try and avoid them! I prefer an even canopy of many smaller heads for lots of reasons but this girl just wouldn't comply! Absolutely covered in resin too, everything in the garden is particularly impressive this time but the PBox is really spectacularly dusted. Looks like a 10 weeker too and it's only the beginning of week 8 so I hope for a bit more squeezed out of her yet haha. This isn't the first time I've grown Plushberry but it's the first time I've gotten this pheno (although there seems to be a great deal of variance here), smells straight up like jam - not any particular berry but a bit of an amalgamation. Delicious! The heads have really swollen too, but not coloured - neither has the AoS or the OG Grape Krypt but the i3 seems to be going dark around the buds. The Lemon Skunk was a gift from a friend and after making a vigorous initial display of health upon being relocated to my garden she has since slowly yellowed despite relatively heavy feedings. It doesn't smell remotely like lemons either, no citrus at all in fact but it is as covered as the PBox although much much smaller heads. The White Fire Alien also has an impressive resin profile but has grown very tall (despite heavy training) and budded extremely slowly, despite this the real let down is the aroma.... It smells like wet fausty washing that's been left somewhere cold and dark for too long. Like mold sort of. It's horrible. Unless it dries very differently it's getting dropped no matter how good it looks. The Chem#4 hybrid is very impressive, huge rock hard heads that are very swollen and dripping with resin, it smells quite strong too; like a sour chemical fuel with a hint of something sweeter underneath. Very nice, looks like another winner. The Timewreck had several tall and skinny heads that stretched up and ruined my even canopy and I was worried about wild as a result, however the heads have fattened up enormously and have needed to be staked (not the only girl to require it). They also look silver from across the garden as it's so covered it resin that it seems to reflect more light back that the plant does! Lastly the mislabeled Darkstar.... I was expecting an Afghanica/Indica dominant plant and got something very exotic! Must have been a mistake on my behalf, although now I have no idea what she is... She's big though, lots of heads all over the place at all sorts of angles and the pistils are really very white and furry! The heads have swollen quite a bit now but she clearly has time left to go, the smell reminds me of some tropical fruit... Coconuts and something else. Very nice. Looked leafy at first but has filled out now so that's no longer the case, also she's very very resinous too.
All in all I'm very impressed with this grow, although nothing has come down yet so my thoughts aren't really indicative of anything. The smells are great though! A lot of varied flavours in there this time; everything is organic soiless as always so I can get that better finish and terpene profile.
I've cloned 9 of the strains to make another 18 cuttings to run next time instead of the 12 I have now, I'm figuring 9 per side instead of 6 will give better canopy coverage as it's square not rectangular. Also cuts my time down a bit.
I'm on the hunt for fruit flavours to make ice wax with, I like the grapey one I have but I think I could do much better as this is only the first grape flavoured strain I have ever come across. I like the look of Fire Alien Strawberry and Mendo Montage F2 - I also have a Marionberry and Jack's Cleaner 2 in veg with my clones for what will hopefully turn out to be raspberry (apparently) and lemon flavours. Anybody got any more suggestions? Not necessarily limited to fruit, but anything with a really interesting or unique smell/flavour...
Thanks in advance...!
